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... attention to the technical dexterity possessed by the great craftsmen in verse . Indeed , there is no better corrective of undue pride , there is no more potent inciter of modesty , than the frequent attempt to vi PREFATORY NOTE.
... attention to the technical dexterity possessed by the great craftsmen in verse . Indeed , there is no better corrective of undue pride , there is no more potent inciter of modesty , than the frequent attempt to vi PREFATORY NOTE.
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... attention to what the artist has to say , or we may examine rather how he says it . The content of his work , what he has to say to us , is the more important , of course , but this must depend on his native gift , on his endowment ...
... attention to what the artist has to say , or we may examine rather how he says it . The content of his work , what he has to say to us , is the more important , of course , but this must depend on his native gift , on his endowment ...
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... Attention may be called to the fact that it never pretends to declare how verse ought to be written ; all that it endeavors to do is to show how verse has been written by the poets who have enriched our litera- A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION.
... Attention may be called to the fact that it never pretends to declare how verse ought to be written ; all that it endeavors to do is to show how verse has been written by the poets who have enriched our litera- A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION.
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... attention distracted by any investigation into the origins of English verse . He will not be called upon to consider the conflicting theories of English prosody . He will not be confused by constant references to the ferent metrical ...
... attention distracted by any investigation into the origins of English verse . He will not be called upon to consider the conflicting theories of English prosody . He will not be confused by constant references to the ferent metrical ...
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... attention to it ; he awakes in us the expect- ancy that its elements will recur at regular intervals ; and it is partly by the gratification of this expectancy that he gives us pleasure . This pattern is the result of reducing rhythm to ...
... attention to it ; he awakes in us the expect- ancy that its elements will recur at regular intervals ; and it is partly by the gratification of this expectancy that he gives us pleasure . This pattern is the result of reducing rhythm to ...
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accepted alliteration anapestic artist asserted attention Austin Dobson ballade beauty blank verse breath Browning Browning's Byron's called charm chosen colliteration composed consonants dactylic declared delight double rimes Dryden effect employed English poetry English verse example feel final line fixed form foot four lines hearer heart heptameter heroic couplet hexameter iambic pentameter iambs iambus kiss language less light long syllables Longfellow's Lowell lyric lyrist mate melody meter metrical metrist Milton never nursery-rimes o'er once pair of rimes passage pause play poem poet poet's poetic license Pope prose quatrain refrain repetition rhythm rhythmic rime-scheme rondeau Rose Shakspere Shakspere's short syllable single rime sometimes song sonnet sound speech spondee stanza substitution sweet Swinburne technic Tennyson thee theme Théodore de Banville thou thought tion trimeter triolet trochaic trochee true tune UNIVERS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unrimed versification villanelle vowel vowel-sound wind words write